Abby Martin back reporting on the American Corporate Empire Expansion

Abby Martin was formerly on RT America's, "Breaking the Set," show. She is now reporting on the telesur network.

If you want to know how far the International Corporations and Bankers
who control the military muscle with the US brand on it, check out the
video. There are US bases spread out all over the world. Who benefits?
It certainly isn't the American taxpayers who foot the bill and are the
address for all the hate in world. American itself might be the next war
zone picked for profit by the elite.

COINTELPRO (an acronym for COunter INTELligencePROgram) is a series of covert, and at times illegal,[1][2] projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.[3]
The FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups
since its inception; however, covert operations under the official
COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971.[4]
COINTELPRO tactics have been alleged to include discrediting targets
through psychological warfare, smearing individuals and groups using
forged documents and by planting false reports in the media, harassment,
wrongful imprisonment, and illegal violence including assassination.[5][6][7] The FBI's stated motivation was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order."[8]
FBI records show that COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed "subversive",[9] including:

Thomas
Paine (February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] – June 8, 1809) was an
English and American political activist, philosopher, political theorist
and revolutionary. As the author of the two most influential pamphlets
at the start of the American Revolution, he inspired the rebels in 1776
to declare independence from Britain. His ideas reflected
Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights. He has been
called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a
propagandist by inclination".

Born in Thetford, England, in the
county of Norfolk, Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in
1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to
participate in the American Revolution. Virtually every rebel read (or
listened to a reading) of his powerful pamphlet Common Sense (1776),
which crystallized the rebellious demand for independence from Great
Britain. His The American Crisis (1776–83) was a prorevolutionary
pamphlet series. Common Sense was so influential that John Adams said,
"Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington
would have been raised in vain."

Paine lived in France for most
of the 1790s, becoming deeply involved in the French Revolution. He
wrote Rights of Man (1791), in part a defense of the French Revolution
against its critics. His attacks on British writer Edmund Burke led to a
trial and conviction in absentia in 1792 for the crime of seditious
libel. In 1792, despite not being able to speak French, he was elected
to the French National Convention. The Girondists regarded him as an
ally. Consequently, the Montagnards, especially Robespierre, regarded
him as an enemy.

In December 1793, he was arrested and imprisoned
in Paris, then released in 1794. He became notorious because of his
pamphlet The Age of Reason (1793–94), in which he advocated deism,
promoted reason and free thought, and argued against institutionalized
religion in general and Christian doctrine in particular. He also wrote
the pamphlet Agrarian Justice (1795), discussing the origins of
property, and introduced the concept of a guaranteed minimum income. In
1802, he returned to the U.S. where he died on June 8, 1809. Only six
people attended his funeral as he had been ostracized for his ridicule
of Christianity.

Thomas Paine has a claim to the title The Father
of the American Revolution because of Common Sense, the
pro-independence monograph pamphlet he anonymously published on January
10, 1776; signed "Written by an Englishman", the pamphlet became an
immediate success.[21] It quickly spread among the literate, and, in
three months, 100,000 copies (estimated 500,000 total including
unauthorized editions sold during the course of the Revolution)[22] sold
throughout the American British colonies (with only two million free
inhabitants), making it the best-selling American title of the
period.[22][23] Paine's original title for the pamphlet was Plain Truth;
Paine's friend, pro-independence advocate Benjamin Rush, suggested
Common Sense instead.

The pamphlet came into circulation in
January 1776, after the Revolution had started. It was passed around,
and often read aloud in taverns, contributing significantly to spreading
the idea of republicanism, bolstering enthusiasm for separation from
Britain, and encouraging recruitment for the Continental Army. Paine
provided a new and convincing argument for independence by advocating a
complete break with history. Common Sense is oriented to the future in a
way that compels the reader to make an immediate choice. It offers a
solution for Americans disgusted with and alarmed at the threat of
tyranny.[24]

Paine was not, on the whole, expressing original
ideas in Common Sense, but rather employing rhetoric as a means to
arouse resentment of the Crown. To achieve these ends, he pioneered a
style of political writing suited to the democratic society he
envisioned, with Common Sense serving as a primary example. Part of
Paine's work was to render complex ideas intelligible to average readers
of the day, with clear, concise writing unlike the formal, learned
style favored by many of Paine's contemporaries.[25] Scholars have put
forward various explanations to account for its success, including the
historic moment, Paine's easy-to-understand style, his democratic ethos,
and his use of psychology and ideology.